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Oh sure, like that's going to get you a raise.

You'd just become another tool in the military tool-box - ripe for exploitation. It's almost like you don't watch super-hero movies.

That could be great. I mean, you might get portals or teleportation. You might get Invulnerability. The ability to create things at will.

Or, you might get Zinc Mimicry.

That's not how superpowers work. Barry Allen got splashed by generic science chemicals that were electrocuted by lightning in what appears to be a completely unprotected police forensics lab and got the power of fast.

We won't know if it's for nothing until it explodes due to natural or unnatural tampering.

As the comments point out, getting up at 5:00 AM isn't exactly unique to CEOs. Neither is working until midnight. Although unless you are a CEO doing both at the same time is uncommon.

I'd do it for a year if they paid me a million bucks. Then I'd invest and live off that for the rest of my life.

The skeptic in me is screaming that this is a fluff piece done purposely to quell the masses. Many paid 'workers' are devoted to their careers/jobs/businesses/organizations and will essentially be on-call to those they serve 24/7.

**** everyone who thinks there's something morally superior about waking up early, or that working long hours necessarily equates to working hard.

Meh, would you take the job if it was offered to you? I wouldn't. Seven figures is a lot of money, but I wouldn't want the stress that comes with the job.

What stress? You agree with the consensus of people who work for you, blame market conditions when you fail and credit yourself when you succeed. Your compensation is determined by a board of people who are CEOs for other companies that you're a board member for, so there's a feedback loop of positive rewards regardless of job performance. Being "successful" means you were around when things went well and reap massive amounts of wealth for good timing, being a "failure" means you reap massive amounts of wealth for leaving and likely move on to some other company where you can roll the dice again and see if you "succeed" this time.

It's an entirely meaningless job in any company with more than 20 employees. Completely, utterly, meaningless. You could replace every CEO of every large company with a magic eight ball and performance would be identical.

Nah, it'd be much worse. Let's not kid about, here. 8 balls don't sleep, so they can't get up super early. How can a business prosper without someone waking up at four am for a three hour ****?

It can't, and that's the undisputed truth.

More likely to get a relevant answer from the eight ball.

8-balls are just like people, you shake them until you get the answer you want.

I was assuming 50k a year. Assuming that you expect to live longer than 20 years, you would have to live off less than 50% of that in order to have money the rest of your life. Going from 50k to 15k is a drastic change.

I guess that would work.. would be difficult for a person making 50k a year to stay within that budget, especially if you have debt, but doable.